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Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum

Overview

This dataset contains the text from Cicero's "De finibus bonorum et malorum." It is intended for use in comparing different neural network architectures within the "Neural Network Evolution" project.

Source

Texts are sourced from The Latin Library. The Latin Library

Preprocessing

The dataset was prepared using a Python script for fetching and processing the text. The script ensures consistent formatting and encoding.

Formatting decision

  • remove all text in html header
  • remove all html tags and tag bodies for anchors
  • remove any references in brackets. ex: [1]
  • remove any implicit text additions. ex: [et]
  • collapse newlines to two separating paragraphs
  • standardize paragraph intent to one tab

See fetch_text.py for details.

Structure of the Dataset

  • Format: Plain text
  • Encoding: UTF-8
  • Size: Approximately 94,616 words and 638,272 characters across 5 books

License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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